Defining Response Criteria for PET Scans for People With Neuroendocrine Tumors

March 6, 2026 updated by: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Definition of PET REsponSe CrItEria for Neuroendocrine Tumors (PRESCIENT)

People with neuroendocrine cancer typically have imaging scans before and after treatment, including positron emission tomography (PET) scans. The scans are analyzed using a set of criteria that describes how the disease has responded to treatment. The purpose of this study is to establish new criteria for doctors to use when evaluating these PET scans. Researchers are testing whether these new criteria are useful for predicting whether a person's cancer gets better, gets worse, or stays the same. Researchers will also compare these new criteria to the current standard criteria for evaluating imaging scans.

Study Overview

Status

Active, not recruiting

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Actual)

11

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

    • New York
      • New York, New York, United States, 10065
        • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sampling Method

Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Potential research subjects will be identified by a member of the patient's treatment team, the protocol investigator, or research team at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK).

Description

Subjects affected by histologically proven, somatostatin-receptor positive, metastatic or inoperable well-differentiated G1, G2 or G3 neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) candidate to receive PRRT with 177Lu-DOTATATE per standard of care.

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Histologically proven or cytologically confirmed, metastatic or inoperable NETs
  2. Measurable disease as defined by RECIST 1.1.
  3. Overexpression of somatostatin receptors of the target lesions at somatostatin receptor imaging (68Ga-DOTATATE or 64Cu-DOTATATE PET/CT) with SUV of lesions greater than normal liver at least in 1 metastasis.

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Neuroendocrine Carcinoma), small and large cell type; MIxed Neuroendocrine-Nonneuroendocrine Neoplasm (MiNEN).
  2. Presence of somatostatin receptor negative lesions.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
Intervention / Treatment
People With Neuroendocrine Tumors having a PET/CT or MRI
This is a non-interventional observational study of imaging.
Before and after treatment.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
validate the PRESCIENT criteria
Time Frame: 1 year
On this prospective validation cohort, the prognostic value of each criteria for the 1-year PFS will be assessed, using a Cox regression model (stratified on the site) and the area under the receiver operating curve (AUC) for time-dependent outcome using inverse probability of censoring weighting.
1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Lisa Bodei, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

June 3, 2024

Primary Completion (Estimated)

June 1, 2026

Study Completion (Estimated)

June 1, 2026

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

June 3, 2024

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 3, 2024

First Posted (Actual)

June 7, 2024

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

March 9, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 6, 2026

Last Verified

March 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

YES

IPD Plan Description

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center supports the international committee of medical journal editors (ICMJE) and the ethical obligation of responsible sharing of data from clinical trials. The protocol summary, a statistical summary, and informed consent form will be made available on clinicaltrials.gov when required as a condition of Federal awards, other agreements supporting the research and/or as otherwise required. Requests for deidentified individual participant data can be made beginning 12 months after publication and for up to 36 months post publication. Deidentified individual participant data reported in the manuscript will be shared under the terms of a Data Use Agreement and may only be used for approved proposals. Requests may be made to: crdatashare@mskcc.org.

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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